Baghdad -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The bodies of 14 men shot dead -- and with some signs of torture -- were found in an area north of Baghdad on Thursday , police said .

The men were taken Wednesday by armed men in military uniforms who raided the mainly Sunni town of Mashahda , police said .

Iraq has been engulfed by sectarian violence for many months . According to police , eight of the men were from one family .

In other parts of the country , at least 11 people died Thursday in shootings and explosions , police said . The incidents occurred in Mosul , Ramadi , Tikrit , Baquba , as well as Baghdad , police said .

In Anbar province , to the west of Baghdad , mortar shells hit the city of Falluja on Thursday night

Details about casualties , if any , were n't immediately available .

Iraq 's government has said its security forces have been fighting al Qaeda-backed militants in the city for days .

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14 are found dead north of Baghdad , police say

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They were taken by men in military uniforms , police say

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11 others die in shootings and blasts elsewhere